Generally speaking, it is different, whether it is responsible for transactions or hierarchy. The provost is responsible for the contact and communication with various colleges of the school, and is responsible for daily academic and teaching activities, such as the student status and credits that the Academic Affairs Office is responsible for. Generally, foreign schools are also equipped with deputy provosts to assist the provost, which is generally behind the principal, and some schools are behind the executive vice president (the provost of some universities in Britain is equivalent to the executive vice president, and so are English words). Generally speaking, the dean of the college, the library and other parts involving students report directly to him, and he is also needed for communication between colleges.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the positions of provost and general manager were rarely set up in domestic universities, and Tsinghua was also the vice president.

The director of the academic affairs office is only the head of a department. If the management is actually under the jurisdiction of the dean, it may be just that some schools are referred to as deans, which is not worthy of the name.

In addition, the general manager is in charge of state-owned assets and logistics, but it can be big or small. Some schools are ranked as school leaders, and some are department leaders (but in fact there are leaders in charge of him). Most domestic schools do not have general managers and their offices.